Alterations of hepatic microsomal enzymes in the early phase of murine schistosomiasis |
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Authors: | Manhães-Rocha Dayse A Conte Fernando P Fidalgo-Neto Antonio A De-Oliveira Ana C A X Ribeiro-Pinto Luis F Paumgartten Francisco J R |
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Institution: | Laboratory of Environmental Toxicology, Department of Biological Sciences, National School of Public Health, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. |
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Abstract: | Schistosoma mansoni has been reported to cause a downregulation of hepatic cytochrome P450 activities after granulomas are formed around worm eggs harbored in the mouse liver. Only a few studies, however, provided data on the activity of xenobiotic-biotransaformation enzymes in the early phase of S. mansoni infection. In this study, we evaluated the alterations of liver microsomal enzymes during early infection (post-infection days, PIDs, 15 and 30) when granulomas are not found in the mouse liver yet. Swiss Webster (SW) and DBA/2 mice of either sex were infected with 100 S. mansoni cercariae on postnatal day 10. Levels of total-CYPs and activities of alkoxyresorufin-O-dealkylases (EROD, MROD, PROD and BROD), N-nitrosodimethylamine-N-demethylase (NDMA-d), coumarin 7-hydroxylase (COH, DBA/2 only) and UDP-glucuronosyltransferase (UGT) were measured in liver microsomes from mice killed on PIDs 15 and 30. Age-matched (sham-infected) mice of the same sex and strain were used as controls. Neither total-CYP levels nor microsomal enzyme activities were altered in SW and DBA/2 mice on PID 15. On PID 30, total-CYP levels, and COH, PROD and UGT activities remained unaltered, while gender- and strain-specific minor changes of EROD, MROD, BROD and NDMA-d (i.e., increase in SW and reduction in DBA/2) were found. In conclusion, our results suggest that, contrasting to a consistent and almost generalized downregulation of CYPs in chronic schistosomiasis, alterations of hepatic CYPs in early (acute) infection are isoform and mouse's gender and strain specific. |
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Keywords: | Cytochrome-P450 Xenobiotic-biotransformation Acute schistosomiasis Monooxygenases Helminthic diseases |
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